Reaching Teens: Strength-Based Communication Strategies to Build Resilience and Support Healthy Adolescent Development - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 158110748X ISBN 13: 9781581107487

Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics, 2014

Synopsis

400+ video clips!
Up to 65 CME/CEU credits!

This groundbreaking multimedia resource embodies the core belief that identifying, reinforcing, and building on inherent strengths can facilitate positive youth development. Text and video components combine to show how expert-tested, strength-based communication approaches work to engage today's teens.

Contributions from leading practitioners - plus firsthand perspectives from teens - help you refine your communication strategies and skills.

Successful solutions targeting today's foremost youth-development issues
Created to benefit all professionals who serve adolescents, Reaching Teens explores and demonstrates communications strategies for diverse healthcare, counseling, youth program, and educational settings. Professionals and teens offer hard-won insight on addressing behavioral and emotional issues; crisis management; stress management; sexuality; grief; depression; peer pressure; substance abuse; bullying; youth violence - virtually all the issues you're most likely to encounter. The work is grounded in resilience theory, positive youth development, and trauma-informed care.

Turn here for actionable advice and counsel spanning the toughest youth communication challenges:
- How to help teens recognize existing strengths
- How to empower wider decisions and healthier choices
- How to foster resilience-building
- How to ally with parents and support effective parenting
- How to develop and prioritize your interventions
- How to help with special psychosocial and environmental challenges
- How to de-escalate crisis situations
- How to establish appropriate boundaries
- How to discourage unhealthy relationships
- How to serve populations with special healthcare needs
- How to practice effective self-care that enhances your ability to serve youth
- Plus much more!Approved for Continuing Education Credits from The American Academy of Pediatrics, The National Association of Social Workers,  The National Board of Certified Counselors, The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, and The American Academy of Physician Assistants.

About this title

About the Author:

Kenneth R. Ginsburg, MD, MS Ed, FAAP, is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and practices adolescent medicine at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is author of "Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings," "Raising Kids to Thrive: Balancing Love with Expectations and Protection with Trust," and "Letting Go with Love and Confidence." He is also the author of the comprehensive multimedia professional publication, "Reaching Teens: Strengths-Based Communication Strategies to Build Resilience and Support Healthy Adolescent Development." He works directly with adolescents and their families as well as regional and national youth development organizations to develop and apply strategies to promote positive development.  He is the father of 2 children and lives in Philadelphia.See fosteringresilience.com for details.

Review:

American Medical Writers Association, The 2014 First Place Winner for a Publication for Non-Physician Professionals.

About this edition

• Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 158110748X
• ISBN 13: 9781581107487
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 600
• Editor: Kenneth R. Ginsburg, Kinsman MD PhD Sara B